Shingle bundling machine



June 4, 1929. c. PADlLLA 1,716,680

SHINGLE BUNDLING MACHINE Filed May 4,- 1927 i l/ ala; LQMPMM Fatented June4, 1929. U I UNITED STATES CONCEPTION PADILLA, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.-

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Application 11h 4, 1927. Serial No. 188,787.

This invention relates to shinglebundling machines, and more particularly'to a stacking device that will effectively stack shingles and transmit them to a point where they may be tied together.

A furth' r object of this invention is toprovide a device of this .nature which will minimize the amount of manual labor expended in placing the shingles in such a position that they may be conveniently tied.

, A still further object of this invention is to provide a' machine which is inexpenslve to manufacture, contains relatively few moving partis,is unlikely to get out of order, and is well adapted to perform the services required of the same. 7 Q

With theseand many other objects in view which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, which will hereinafter be more fully described, illus I. trated, and claimed.

The essential features of the invention in-,

volved in the carrying out of the objects in- 'dicated are susceptible to modifications; but a preferred embodiment of the invention is shfiwlilr in the accompanying drawings, in w 10 Figure 1 is a top plan view of a preferred form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the shingle bundling machine showing the same in operative assembled relationship.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the device as shown in Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrow 3 in that figure.

Fi 4 is a plan view of a slightly modi fied orm of the invention, and

Fig. 5 is a side view of the discharge shown in Figure 4.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which similar reference characters designate similar parts thoughout, the device involves in its general organization, a plurality of adjustable supports 10 and 11. The supports 10 are four in number and serve to support a table 12, while the supports 11 are two in number and serve to support a conveyor, which conveyor is designated at 13 and consists of side bars 14, and an end bar 15. These side bars 14 are attached to one side of the table and extend outwardly therefrom in a plane with the table. The table has a pair of transverse recesses 16 formed therein, and a plurality of brackets 1 held in place by bolts 18, form journal bearings for a rotatable shaft 19, which shaft has mounted thereon and keyed thereto, a pair of shingle turning members designated as an entirety at-17. Each of these members comprises four outwardly extending arms 20, 21, 22 and 23 respectively.

Each of these arms extends outwardly from the shaft at an angle of 90 from its adjacent arm, and thus the arms 20 and 22, and the arms 21 and 23 are in alignment. These arms may be formed integral, and both shingle turning members have their corresponding parts ying in the same plane so that the arms 20, 20; 21, 21; 22, 22; and 23, 23; lie in the same planes respectively. The shaft is free to turn in the journals provided for it.

Pivoted for rotation between the side bars 14 are a plurality of rollers R which rollers are adapted to convey the stacked shingles to a point where they may be tied. The exact number of these rollers R is immaterial, and in this instance I have shown six, but the number may be increased or decreased at will. On one end of the table there'is provided an upstanding flange designated at F, which flange may be used as a guide to align the shingles as they are placed on the table.

The parts thus described in essence constitute my entire invention, and I will now proceed with the description of the operation of the device. An operator stands at the forward end of the table 12 and places the shingles uniformly on the table as clearly shown in Figure 1. When a sufficient number of shingles have been stacked in this manner, by graspirg the upwardly extending arms and causing them to pass rearwardly and downwardly, the shingles are lifted by the arm beneath them as this arm passes through the slot 16, and they are laid upon the rollers R in a horizontal position wherethey may travel to the end of the frame and be tied' by another operator. In this position, the shingles turning members 17 are ready to receive another stack of shingles on the table side of the device.

In Figures 4 and 5 I have shown a slightly modified form of the invention, and in this modification it is not necessary to cut the groove 16 in the table. A rack 15 consisting of a plurality of parallel bars 16' is adapted to rest upon the table. Pivoted to this rack area pair of arms 17 extending perpendicular to the bars 16'- These arms lie ust outside the frame 13', and the shingles are stacked upon the rack 15'. When a suflicient number of shin les are which is pivote to the ta eis'swun .rear- 7 .wardl and the shingles are deposits upon prising a table, a conveyor revolubly mounted adjacent an edge of the the ro ers R.

' What I claim by this invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: Y

1. A device of the character described comadjacent said table, a shaft mounted for rotationon one edge of said table transversely of said conveyor, shingle turning members on said shaft, Sflld shingle turning members having arms adapted to underlie a stack of shingles, said shingle turning members being: located on each side of said conveyor, and recesses cut in said table to rmit -said arms to underlie a stack of shing es, and means on said table foralignin shingles in said stack.

2-. In a s ingle bundling machine, a table adapted to receive and stack vertically disposed shingles, a conveyor extendin from said table, a shaft revolubly mounte adjacent'an edgeof the table transversely of said I conveyor, the axis of rotation-of said shaft 1 conveyor, and a shingle-turning member carbeing below the tops of said table and said ried by said shaft at .each side of said conveyor, each of said members comprising arms spaced about said shaft, said arms bein adapted to pass through apertures in sai' table when t e shaft is rotated.

3. In a shingle bundling machine,'a table adapted to receive shingles, a guide on said table for aligning said s ingles into a stack, a conveyor extending from said table, a shaft table transversely of said conveyor, the axis of rotation of said shaft being below the tops gosition, the rack,-

turnin member carried'by saidshaft at each of the table and the conveyor, and a shingle side 0 said conveyor, each of said members comprising arms spaced about said shaft, said adaptedto pass through apertures adapted to successively receive a" "lurality'of v shingles, a guide on said table or alignin said shingles into a stack," a conveyor extend I w Wltll said table for "lifting. said stack from;

in from said table and meansJas'sociated' said table, turning it throu h ninetylg'degrew, and depositing it upon s'ai conveyor.

6. In a shingle bundling adapted to successively receive'af lurality of shingles, a guide on said table orjali g said shingles into a stack wherein the shingles Y a conveyor extendingv are standing on edge, 7 from the table, and means associated with said table for lifting said stack from. said side upon said conveyor.

. In testimony whereof I name tothis specification.

and deposit it upon said con-' 5o. rom said-table, and means 7 turning it and depositing it I machine, a table j 10 table, turning it and depositing it upon its have signed my CONCEPTION PADQLA. 

